Hi, This is just my opinion RE: Juniper vs going from IOS to IOS XR but the change in OS "structure" between going from IOS (6500/7600) to going to JunOS OR IOS XR is... about the same.
Also I like my ASR9001s much more than my MX80. For what it's worth. Drew -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Howard Leadmon Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:24 PM To: Gert Doering <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco ASR1000 Info.. On 10/31/2019 2:04 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > Actually I'm amazed at all the newfangled gear which promises to do > everything and then fails at essentials that *my 6500s* have been > doing well from day 1... I have really loved my 65xx's and 7600's that I have had, and my 7606 is running to this very day, passing many bits very happily. > OTOH, my 6500s are really falling apart, and we're fairly busy getting > rid of them (replacing the switch layer with Arista Trident2+/3 MLAG > pairs, routing for "things without ACLs" on there as well, routing for > "things with ACLs" yet undecided)... BGP currently goes to ASR9001s, > but the lack of ports and the price insanity of ASR9901 make me look > at MX204 and Arista Jericho gear... I had a few tell me to look at the 9901, but agree it's far to rich for my blood, we are just small fry's running in a handful of racks, so I have a hard time justifying a 100K for a router. So do you feel that the ASR9001 would be a good choice for the next 5 years or so, and if I am correct on the 9001 I think the licensing is all there from the start, so it should just play? I think the only thing that made me blink at the unit, is I only saw dual power supplies, granted it's a rare day you see the processors drop over. > I really like my ASR9001s, but the Cisco BU and OS confusion does not > really make me confident that this is the company I want to trust for > the next 15+ years... (unlike the 6500s that really *really* served us > well for a loooong time). As I mentioned in my prior message to Mark, I even brought up the option of a Juniper, the MX240's seem to be reasonable, but a great many on the Juniper list no less warned me to be cautious and said if I wanted to consider JunOS I best have a unit to lab with for a while first. That and list with so many other vendors, the licensing looked every bit as much of a pain in the backside. So after all that I went back to looking at the ASR1006 and ASR9001 for my task. As I also mentioned in my prior message back to the list, I really just need a good BGP speaker with capacity for a few million IPv4/IPv6 routes, so I am not fork-lifting it out in a years time. I also need say 8 10GE ports to connect to my upstreams, peers, and the rest of my internal network.. > > gert > --- Howard Leadmon PBW Communications, LLC http://www.pbwcomm.com _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
